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[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

Written by Jade Kitsune / Flash Frame

Edited by Mattiator, Sir William Knight and others. Thanks guys, you're all awesome.

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Chapter 1

Of Frozen Cities, and Ponies.

Hololog starts.

Static fills the holographic image, before a rather soft face enters the frame, shoulder length black hair frames the face, though the true gender is betrayed by a rather deep voice.

"My name is Jade Kitsunaga, and this is, well, frankly it's a video diary. I'm probably not the most interesting person out there, outside of some of the obvious things about me. I'm probably one of the few Transgendered mech pilots out there for a start. Secondly I'm still a tomboy at heart. Guess that's why I gravitated to piloting 'mechs."

The camera shakes, being picked up as suddenly, a 30 foot tall Jenner comes into view. Jade's face revealed once again, the camera obviously on a tripod she points up. "My ride. I call her Dashie... 6 small lasers are her armament, XL engine. She's fast, hits decently, and gotten me out of more than one scrape.

=== 2 Weeks Prior===

"Flashframe reporting in, I've got nothing on sensors in the E5 sector block, there's just nothing out here..." Static over the comms met her ears as she flipped a couple of switches on her command console. Another voice came though

"Roger that Flash, get me a sweep up the 5 line, let's see what's over that ridge, the unit's holding back."

She smirked, Protection... often times the defacto lance leader of the ELPMC called over her comms.

Another deep voice sounded off with a bit of laughter to it, William Knight, "Right, send the girl over the ridge."

There was a chorus of laughs from the unit and Jade shook her head.

"Right, right, I'll keep in communication. Be ready to pull my *** outta' the fire, though."

Her hand tightened on the throttle as she pushed it foward, she could feel the engine hum under her increase, indication that the power from the Fusion engine was increasing to handle the load of the Myomer muscles that powered the mechs legs. With the flick of a switch, thermograph vision filled the HUD of her nerohelmet just as she crested the ridge, and her display lit up with contacts.

"Oh boy, got five contacts immedately infront of me, mostly heavies and assaults... Wait, I've got a sixth, looks like another Jenner, I'll mark target and move for the scout."

She keyed up targeting data on one of the Awesomes, there was a whoop over comms and two replies of "Target locked, Missiles inbound." echoed in her ears as she worked right, laser fire passing dangerously close to her cockpit, a slight raking of the coherent light burning a line along her right side "arm", furrowing a few pockmarks into the armor protecting her weapons.

It didn't take long, down the ridge and along the lower valley, that's where she found this scout, it ran hard, but she pushed her mech. Her Jenner was her baby, and she'd put in time with the technicians, making sure to squeeze every ounce of power out of the myomer in her mechs legs, to get every bit of power out of her fusion engine, and it was paying off here, slowly, the distance between her machine and the jenner closed, it dodged left, then right, then strightened out heading down a corridor of buildings, that's when Jade struck. Six Small Lasers landing into the rear armor of the enemy mech, scarlet beams of energy slagging away armor, melting thick furrows into the metal. a Small Laser wasn't something to be afraid of, but six were another story. At least a ton of metal melted off the enemy machine, causing it to stagger a bit. the pilot immedately juked left, just trying to get away, and he did a perfect turn into a wall, knocking his machine hard to the ground. With a laugh, she poured more energy into the rear armor of the mech, coring into it's fusion reactor. Thick oily black smoke rose from the carcass as she whooped into the comms.

"One down!"

The sound of combat echoed over the speakers "Clear comms, Mechwarrior." Brevet General Hylius echoed from his mech, a grunt from him signified a hit to his own mech, which he returned in kind.

Jade's eyes grew wide as she pulled up, a downed dropship highlighted the fight dividing the two sides, both using it for cover from one another, now and again taking potshots at the other when one would attempt to crest the ridge.

"Well, time to cause some havoc, I think."

Instantly she was off again, targeting one of the larger mechs, An Atlas turned, it's glowing eyes focusing on her as she worked left, deep furrows from Large Lasers marked the ground where she'd been moments ago. She slammed the lasers into the Atlas' right torso, melting off just over a ton of armor with the blast, which slagged down the side of the mech. Her Jenner jolted with a hit and she rocked, keeping the 'mech upright was a feat in and of itself. She'd just been hit with a Gauss Rifle Slug... her internals were holding however as was her armor on her left leg, barely.

"Someone hit that Cent, he's got a Gauss!"

She marked the offending mech with her targeting systems, sending the data though her computer to every other mech in her unit.

"Maverix here, on him!"

With that another Jenner shot past her, jade beams of Medium Lasers and scarlet beams Small Pulse Lasers hammering into the offending Centurion, melting armor in huge gobs off the right arm, Jade herself took a potshot, scoring a hit to something critical as there was a flash of light within the barrel of the main gun, then a resounding POP as the gun tore itself appart.

"Musta' hit a capacitor!" she called.

The battle raged around her, but soon, the enemy unit was reduced to ruins, and as the comms cleared of battle chatter, she wiped her forhead,

"Thank Celestia for the cool weather, huh?"

The ELPMC was a unit that held a standard similar to the Eridani Light Horse, however the Ponies had a common theme, an old "cartoon" from Terra's past, "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" Most of the mercs in the unit had seen it, and there was just something about painting a pastel pony, or a cutie mark, on your ride that infuriated other pilots... it was something Jade just couldn't get, sure she enjoyed the show, but it was just that: a show. Still, if she could ruffle some feathers while she rode around in a blue-colored jenner with a rainbow lightning bolt on her upper-leg accuator, she'd do it. Psychological Warfare was "SOO AWESOME!"

The mission was done, and payment had been tendered, and already, Jade was talking to the techs in regards to her ride, what needed to be fixed and what had felt off. She had a good relationship with the ELP techs, however her eyes drifted up to one of the mechs she'd recovered from the battlefield as part of her pay... a Centurion, with it's arm in shambles, and cockpit cored out... she smirked, "Think I'll call you 'The Applebucker'" she grinned and turned, waving to the techs, it was time to get a drink, and celebrate another mission survived.

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Edited on the edit done by Mattiator.

[Nova Latios Storm]

Can I join FIF? I am a brony ^-^

[Adridos]

Nova Latios Storm, on 20 May 2014 - 10:23 AM, said:

Can I join FIF? I am a brony ^-^

That's a question for their forums, don't you think.

Eridanipony.com... if I'm not mistaken. Or just click on a sig of one of it's members.